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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1941
Page
2
Autumn produce fills stalls with pumpkins squash cabbage peppers and grapes as cooks seek hearty seasonal dishes. Beef chuck highlights affordable tenderness with two recipes including chuck roast and Spanish style steak alongside Brussels sprouts mushrooms acorn squash and stuffed vegetable dishes for warm fall meals.
Fence editor invites Cedar Rapids residents to swap recipes in the back fence column. Included are pumpkin bread guidance, an eggplant and tomato spaghetti casserole by Mrs. E C Stern of Seattle, a chocolate cake with marshmallow icing by Mrs. Wesley Kubik of Cedar Rapids, and baking tips using evaporated milk and sour milk for tenderness.
Two cups cooked pork or leftovers with spinach and cheese bake in a casserole. Liver slices marinated in oil and lemon, potatoes, and bay leaf simmer until tender. Frankfurters wrapped in bacon and fried. Kidney beans with bacon bake with tomatoes and onions. Livers browned in bacon fat with paprika and toast. Tripe a la Creole uses bacon drippings, onions, tomatoes and flour.
Avocados plentiful and cheap. artichokes expensive but high quality. Brussels sprouts vary in quality. Locally grown endive and watercress are excellent and cheap. Broccoli good and cheap. Chinese cabbage good locally. beets locally grown and cheap. Mushrooms cultivated, expensive but good. Green peas from Colorado fair and reasonably priced. Pumpkins in season, price varies. Sweet potatoes plentiful. blueberries scarce, fair quality, expensive. Cocoanuts good quality and reasonable. Rutabagas plentiful and cheap. turnips shipped in and expensive. Tomatoes very perishable and often too expensive for canning. Spinach home grown, fairly reasonable. Head lettuce improving, reasonable. Pomegranates good quality, price similar to last year. Concord grapes nearly gone, reasonable. Tokay grapes excellent and cheap. Oranges high price. Cranberries plentiful but color not up to standard, reasonable. Rocky Ford melons moderate price, fair quality, limited supply. Casaba and Persian melons expensive. Honeydew melons fairly green. Green beans home grown, fair quality, moderate price. Cabbage good and cheap. Red cabbage supply moderate, reasonable. Cauliflower good quality, average price. Golden delicious squash home grown.
Statement of the condition of Fairfax State Savings Bank of Fairfax Iowa Linn County as of September 24 shows resources including loans and discounts 287307.83 United States bonds 24700 cash items 160545.87 total resources 3475053.50 liabilities include capital stock 25000 surplus 12600 profits after expenses 11545 deposits 4360074.50 total liabilities 4475053.50 signed by President J Lynch Vice-president Chas Elson and cashier J L Kyra notary Helen Krall and other directors attest.
A late summer fruit guide offers a pear preserving recipe using ripe pears cinnamon cloves allspice sugar and fruit pectin. The method covers peeling coring grinding measuring cups water boiling skimming sterilizing jars and paraffin sealing for winter storage. The feature mentions Kieffer pears as a suitable variety for the process.
Instructions from the Bureau of Home Economics describe washing trimming and coring pears then slicing and layering with sugar for 8 to 10 hours. After boiling lemons gingerroot and pear mixture until clear and amber color the hot fruit is packed into sterilized jars and sealed.
A column of home style cooking describes baking pork chops topped with apple rings and rice, boiling turnips, and serving with a savory cream sauce. It includes detailed steps for molasses glaze, fat trimming, rolling in flour, browning, layering with apples, peppers, and buttered potatoes, plus a mixed stock milk sauce.
The recipe details browning onion in drippings, simmering tomatoes then straining, and thickening with flour. It instructs washing and cutting tripe, dredging, browning in bacon fat, adding peppers, combining with the sauce, and simmering an hour before serving.
Home grown squash and eggplant are abundant and cheap. Cucumbers arrive from Minnesota at reasonable prices. Pascal celery quality varies but is generally good and cheap. Green peppers are plentiful and fairly priced. Quinces just started season and are pricey for canning but market watch advised. Kiefer pears plentiful good quality and reasonable. Bartlett pears nearing end of season with slight price increase.
A recipe for apple dumplings uses flour baking powder salt milk shortening and apples. The dough is rolled cut filled with sugar and cinnamon and baked with a sugar nutmeg cinnamon butter mix and water in two stages.
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